EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF FLEXURAL CAPACITY STRENGTH IN-PLANE LOAD ON WALL PANELS USING AUTOCLAVED AERATED CONCRETE BLOCK AND BAMBOO REINFORCEMENT

Concrete wall panels are widely used due to their faster and more efficient application, but they generally have considerable weight. This study will further discuss the flexural capacity of wall panels using autoclaved aerated concrete blocks, and bamboo reinforcement is given in-plane loads. This research was conducted at the Laboratory of Construction Materials and Structures, University of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia. Model-scale wall panels with dimensions of 40 cm × 80 cm × 3.5 cm and 60 cm × 120 cm × 5 cm, using bamboo reinforcement with dimensions of 10 mm × 10 mm, and light brick type autoclaved aerated concrete as filler to reduce the panel weight were applied. The wall panels were tested for their flexure with in-plane loads at three-point loads. Based on the research results, it can be seen that there were differences in the characteristics of the weight of the wall panels; wall panels using AAC have a lighter weight than wall panels without AAC, with reduction differences of 33.74% for size 40 cm × 80 cm × 3.5 cm and 35.54%